Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-07

oil the outside OF the building, but as the food
and prices of these pseudo Duvaiis are much
like those OF Tho genuine Duvai's, we need not
larry 10 praise or condemn them.
When you enter a i.Bouillon Duval,o as
their sign reads, you are given u small sheet
Of paper with a list Of dishes and prices
printed on it. This is to be handed to your
waiter when you select a table and he puts q
lead pencil mark after each dish that Is or
dered. You also find on the table the bill of
fare for the day, with the prices distinctly
printed. When you have finished your re-
past, the waiter hands back the paper, which
you deposit at the counter, where tho
mounts are footed up by q lady clerk. You
pay, she stamps the paper and, in passing out
of the restaurant, you return the paper to the
employe at the door who first gave it to you.
1t is evident that by this system there can be
no "tucking on a practice too common in
France when the accent betrays the foreigner.
j forgot to say that on rising from the table
q Frenchman leaves three sous, il alone. orif
accompanied by others, W. or three'sous for
each additional member Of the party. Amerit
cans sometimes give a franc or SO, a very bad
custom, for it spoils the walters, who are no
longer satistied with a just pour boire. Some-
thing should always be given, for these wait
ers are unpaid and live entirely by these
small offerings, which, however, generally
amount to u good round sum by the end OF
the day. &k S8EF
And now a few words about Paris stores.
The shops of the French capital are famous
all the world over, and with good reason, for
where 'elseis such taste shown as insthe win
dows That line the grand bouleyards and the
principal streets of the city, But, as a rule, l
should suggest that Americans who have not
n IL rra la ~ L. ,Ao,,vf ;v,,;k ttnSr ral fsNnp
with the Paris shops to admiring them from
the streets. Within, the display is very
tempting and the shopkeeper very adroit, and
you run the risk not only of purchasing what
you never dreamed Of before crossing the
threshold, but also of paying a price for it
that yolswill always dream of thereafter.
These willy Partisan merchants know that
manufactured articles often cost twice as
much i'll the United States as in France, so
they are sure, rs a rule, to sell to Americans
at American prices. What am saying here
applies only to the jaunty little shops that
catch the eye of the tourist There are in
Paris just as ,nany honest storekeepers as in
other cities, but it is the natives only, for the
most part, who find them out and trade with
them. -, ~
! should suggest to those of my country
men and Women who have purchases tomake
in Paris, to confines themselves as much MS
possible to the big stores where every article
is marked and where so much business is done
thut all petty cheating is never resorted to
nor even thought of. There are, perhaps, a
score of these great stores at the French cap
ital, of which the most noted and unquestior.-
ably the best the famous Bon Marche.
Translated into English this means sCheap
Store" And you can get cheap things there
and dear ones, too, and if 1 were to venture
to give another piece of advice 1 should say,
always buy the dear articles; for, by so do
ing, you viii! get something good at its lowest
price. ag4. THEODORE STANTON.